General music shittalking thread

[Patrick]

ITT we quantify the value of musicians past and present.

First up: Josh Klinghoffer is literally Hitler

[Pilchard123]

Godwin Index of this thread: 1

[Patrick]

it's like golf. lowest score wins.

[Taekwondoin]

First up: Josh Klinghoffer is literally Hitler

I'm laughing pretty damn hard right now. Frusciante he ain't, that's for sure.

As much as I love Led Zep, I think that Jimmy Page is overrated and the least talented member of the band.

[Thrillho]

I can't stand the vast majority of Led Zeppelin's catalogue regardless.

[KingOfIreland]

As much as I love Led Zep, I think that Jimmy Page is overrated and the least talented member of the band.

[lepetitfromage]

lol Hitler.....wow. 


I think the biggest difference between Josh and John is that when John plays, you fucking feel it. He just pours his guts out onto everything and it gets all over you. Josh gets a few points for being able to parrot everything that John has played in the past, plus the new stuff is decent in the sense that I can listen to it and still enjoy the feel of the Chilis. But it's definitely not the same.

[Thrillho]

That's the issue with Josh's own playing too, of course. He is doing an impression of John.

[Patrick]

Josh gets a few points for being able to parrot everything that John has played in the past

He gets zero from me, I've been able to do that since my third year playing guitar. Fuck Josh.

[IDMG]

RHCP while fun live haven't made a good album since the 90s and John Frusciante's solo music blows.

[BeoPuppy]

RHCP [...] haven't made a good album [...]

You should have ended that sentence right there. Missed opportunity.

[ev4n]

First up: Josh Klinghoffer is literally Hitler

I'm laughing pretty damn hard right now. Frusciante he ain't, that's for sure.

As much as I love Led Zep, I think that Jimmy Page is overrated and the least talented member of the band.

All I know is that I can't stand Plant's voice.  At all.  Fingernails on chalkboard.

[Thrillho]

Add me to that. And his lyrics are dogshit. There's not many 'legendary' musicians who make me think 'Jesus, my stuff is better than this.'

[BeoPuppy]

I disagree so hard with all of you.

[Thrillho]

Find me some good Robert Plant lyrics.

[KingOfIreland]

Just sayin'

I know he didn't write most (I think one song is his), but this is proof of his talent at the very least.

As for Jimmy page, I dare you all to say that this isn't impressive as fuck. And if you say it's because it's in an open tuning you can fuck the fuck right off

[Thrillho]

So it took him 38 years to write a good lyric? WHAT A MUSIC LEGEND

Seriously though, I may not have specified, but I meant in Led Zeppelin. In a band with an incredible guitarist, a multi-talented bassist, and a unique but in my opinion massively overrated drummer, you had a squealy motherfucker writing fucking LOTR/stolen blues lyrics as their frontman.

[A_S00]

Josh Klinghoffer is literally Hitler

Does this mean John Frusciante is Otto von Bismarck?

[Lummer]

Metal bands should just stop trying to "hit it big" because that genre will never be something you can make a decent living off of anyway. It's pathetic to watch.

[Taekwondoin]

As for Jimmy page, I dare you all to say that this isn't impressive as fuck. And if you say it's because it's in an open tuning you can fuck the fuck right off

B-but it's in open tuning!

I kid, that is impressive, I just think that in comparison to Bonham and Jones he's not quite on the same level of talent, that however doesn't mean that I don't like the band, I don't share a lot of the other opinions in this thread and you'll often find me rocking out to immigrant Song or Black Dog. Also, Physical Graffiti is their best album.

[BeoPuppy]

Metal bands should just stop trying to "hit it big" because that genre will never be something you can make a decent living off of anyway. It's pathetic to watch.

There are always the few who manage and therefore a kilo-fuck-ton who aspire to get there.

[Detachable Felix]

My current gripe: Ukeleles. Fucking everyone seems to be throwing away their real instruments and releasing quaint little indie-folk songs on fucking ukeleles. Any band that does this does not deserve to call themselves a band.

[KingOfIreland]

I've always wanted to play the last song in a set on a uke and then smash it at the end to make some kind of point.

On annoying trends: In Belgium at least there's a 'burgeoning' DIY punk scene. Just because you're DIY, doesn't mean you're amazing and troopunx man.

[Thrillho]

My current gripe: Ukeleles. Fucking everyone seems to be throwing away their real instruments and releasing quaint little indie-folk songs on fucking ukeleles. Any band that does this does not deserve to call themselves a band.

My ears are burning.

[ev4n]

Gave Plant/Krauss an honest listen last night.  Was reasonably impressed until Plant started to wail.  Seriously, he needs to just stay muted imo.

[BeoPuppy]

[Detachable Felix]

Can I just say there is a massive difference between that ^ and what I was referring to. I'm talking about the fact that every time I go out, I seem to see so many ukelele bands with such little talent. That dude's got talent. He's exempt.

[BeoPuppy]

Also: SLAYER!!!!!

...

!!!

[Patrick]

oh man, as a guy in charge of two open mics, you don't want to get me started on how much I hate the overwhelming majority of ukulele 'musicians'. Including people I love more dearly than most of my kin.

[KingOfIreland]

As a guy who's done sound for an open mic or two, I can't tellyou how much I hate the overwhelming majority of musicians and their friends who 'know sound' and try to adjust your mixer

[pwhodges]

So I guess that a ukulele player trying to fiddle with the mixer while playing would be the worst of the worst!

[BeoPuppy]

Worse than Hitler.

Godwin index of this thread: 2.

[Jimor]

Thread fodder incoming! How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?

As the article states, lots of caveats to apply to this list, but it should provide ample ammunition for continued shittalking. 

[Patrick]

I could reasonably expect to afford Deer Tick in 15 years, assuming this maintains. Sweet.

[BeoPuppy]

Why, in the name of everything unholy, do I like the music of Lana Del ray so much?

[Thrillho]

She's better than most pop stars, I'll give her that.

Here's what I thought of her first album!
http://madcap156.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/2012-the-year-the-world-ended-it-didnt/
...And everything else I heard in 2012. Sorry. Forgot I didn't dedicate a whole blog post to her.

[BeoPuppy]

You don't like her music much.

I don't know ... must be the strange depressive gangster Nancy Sinatra/Laura Palmer thing which drags me in.

[Thrillho]

She has a handful of great songs... She just rewrote them all three times so her album is like deja vu.

[BeoPuppy]

Sounds lazy.

[Thrillho]

Listen to the album. It's like listening to a really good EP three times in a row.

[BeoPuppy]

Oh, I don't know. That's not how I experience it. But as ever, our mileages may vary.

[Patrick]

that's how I felt about an album my friend posted on my Facefuck wall by a band called Spokane. it was good, and then I heard that song 7 more times. Jesus Christ, stop it

[KingOfIreland]

Wait, did you just have an entire conversation with yourself?

[doombilly]

My current gripe: Ukeleles. Fucking everyone seems to be throwing away their real instruments and releasing quaint little indie-folk songs on fucking ukeleles. Any band that does this does not deserve to call themselves a band.

This made me hate Brooklyn so hard. Fucking giggling twats with Ukes. "Oh look I duct taped some electronic bullshit and now it feedsback for 42 minutes and so my set just magically gets extended by the time cut out of your set. I'm so cute and high and 23..."

[Detachable Felix]

"Oh look I duct taped some electronic bullshit and now it feedsback for 42 minutes and so my set just magically gets extended by the time cut out of your set. I'm so cute and high and 23..."

I had to stop busking at a Pt Adelaide market because some douche with a uke wanted to play a set. She was so bad that people were actually coming up to me as I was packing up my piano and giving me money instead. Like, stepping over her tip jar to give me money. 

.. I suppose I should feel kinda bad about it, but eh. MONEY.

[Patrick]

Luke I gotta say man, you should not feel guilty about that. There is nothing I want rude shitmongers to understand better than the fact that they're rude shitmongers, and that's the most awesome passive-aggressive way I can think of to inform them.

[thedevilissix]

Not so much of a shitstir as a question:

How far do you think the intro to "Who are you" by The Who was influenced by hiphop?
I think it's an incredibly hip-hop intro.
By accident or on purpose?

[Thrillho]

Townsend's influences at the time were pushing more towards disco (no, really) and punk than hip-hop to my knowledge. He was trying to be a bit more boundary-free with his work but I'm not sure if hip-hop was on his radar by then.

[doombilly]

Working for 4 commercial radio stations sure has upped my suicidal ideation. But mostly I think humanity has run its course and I hope space hippos show up and crush us all to def.

[A_S00]

Hypothesis:  No-one actually likes Deerhoof; everyone claiming to do so is transparently attempting to out-hip their peers.

y/n?